

An edition of Delete (2009)
The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger,Viktor Nberger
Publish Date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
eng
Pages
264
Description:
Delete leads us to an understanding of the digital age and how the inability to ‘forget’ has unforeseen and perhaps humiliating consequences in our daily lives. With Facebook now showing all of your past posts and discussion threads it is harder and harder to hope your mistakes will be forgotten. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger follows the important role of forgetting and how it has impacted our everyday lives both historically and currently. Along with an explanation of why information privacy rights and other legal fixes can’t help us. He concludes by giving us a simple solution.
subjects: Computer storage devices, Persistence, Memory, Social aspects, Internet, Social aspects of Internet, Right of Privacy, Right to be forgotten, Informationssamhället, Informationsgesellschaft, Atarazanas, Personenbezogene Daten, Datenspeicherung, Sociala aspekter, Gedächtnis, Speicher <Informatik>, Minnet, Datorminnen, Speicher, Sociology, General, Computer & internet, Information technology, Professional, career & trade -> computer science -> information technology, Professional, career & trade -> law -> law, Social sciences -> political science -> public policy, Internet, social aspects, Personality, Memory [MESH]